BY TONI VRANJES Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming real...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEb CREJ Assignment Editor Commercial real estate industry observers say a fundamental shift in the way real e...

Rachel Krevans was afraid the law school she applied to in 1983 would ask her why she wanted to be a lawyer. "I had no idea," ...

BURBANK - With first-quarter figures in for 2003, statewide construction volume totaled $15.68 billion, up 10.5 percent from t...

BY JOEL B. MILLER Recently, Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, proposed legislation that would prohibit devel...

BY MICHAEL GOTTIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The large amount of capital pursuing investment deals in strong markets such as Sout...

An animal-rights group dedicated to protecting kangaroos is hopping mad with Adidas for its use of the marsupial's skin to mak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired California Associate Justice David Eagleson, who helped usher in a new era of conservatism on the Supr...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ San Diego's Cornerstone Realty Finance is the latest correspondent lender to join a growing...

Lawyers view themselves as trusted counselors to their clients, with the communication between them protected by the sacred at...

A Los Angeles judge soon will decide the fate of a parcel of land in Koreatown that is owned by a church but has been taken ov...

It isn't often a job like this comes around. Morrison & Foerster had lost its key ERISA partner, Irvine's Ellen Marshall, ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It's no secret that hotels are offering all sorts of amenities these days, from special e...

Tomlinson Zisko added Heather Meeker, 43, as special counsel to the firm's intellectual property protection and licensing grou...

Conjure an image of Oakland, and you're bound to think of an industrial port, a high crime rate, maybe even raucous Raiders fa...

Ramsey Hanna has left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to become a partner with Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossma...

Thomas W. Kellerman, formerly managing partner of the European joint venture of Brobeck Hale and Dorr in London, has joined Mo...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Many San Jose hotel owners and managers are willing to pay more taxes if they bring o...

After 15 years with the Irvine office of Morrison & Foerster, William Grenner has joined the Santa Ana office of Michelman...

Fenwick & West Chairman Gordon K. Davidson has high expectations for Mark C. Stevens, who is returning to the firm's corpo...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Nestled between two of the fastest growing counties in Southern California lies one of the s...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ California Public Employees' Retirement System, the $130 billion state-employee pension fun...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Legacy Partners hopes to bring an urban edge to several Northern California cities wh...

In Closing Column - Litigation Technology - By David Hunter - The age of courtroom technology is here to stay, and it's changi...

Leonard Venger has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as executive vice president of litigation. Venger was a partner with Los...

BY MICHAEL E. DI GERONIMO When a ground lessee does not need financing to construct its initial improvements on a leased premi...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When planning began on Diamond Valley Lake in the mid-1980s, Southern California Metropolita...

In the hustle and bustle of the days that followed his firm's collapse, Steven Kaufhold followed a group of 50 Brobeck, Phlege...

Adviser Column - Foreign Entities - By Debra C. Scheufler - Many foreign business entities, both corporations and limited liab...

Adviser Column - ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - You are a hardworking attorney. Suddenly you receive notice that you are in a ...